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33-year-old lactating woman with palpable lump left breast

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So our next patient is a 33-year-old lactating

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woman with a palpable lump in the left breast.

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So for this patient who is 33 but

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lactating, we started with ultrasound

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in the area of palpable concern.

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So that was in the left breast,

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just a little bit lateral to the nipple.

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And we saw this hypoechoic irregular

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mass, sort of taller than wide.

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Measuring about two centimeters

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in greatest dimension.

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Here it is in antiradial and radial plane,

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little blood flow around the edges, not internally.

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And we were pretty worried about this.

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So we knew we were going to recommend a

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biopsy for it, but just to complete her

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workup, we recommended a bilateral mammogram.

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So that was done on the same day.

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So, we did CC (craniocaudal) and MLO (mediolateral oblique) views of both

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breasts, and we can see that in the left

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breast, slightly lateral to the nipple and

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posterior depth, there's this asymmetry,

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and we also see it on the MLO view.

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We're not really seeing anything

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obvious in the other breast, but

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just to have a closer look at this.

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We looked with tomosynthesis, so this is our

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mass that we've just looked at with ultrasound.

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You know, nothing else in this breast.

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We looked on our MLO.

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This is our MLO tomosynthesis view.

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We actually saw that there was one other

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mass that we were interested in,

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and we went back to ultrasound and found a

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cyst in that location, so that was okay.

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We looked at the other side, CC view,

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38 00:01:55,015 --> 00:01:56,145 nothing there.

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And then MLO view looked good as well.

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Okay.

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So, you know, we've done an

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ultrasound and a mammogram.

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We are finding one mass that we're

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concerned about, and that was

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recommended for ultrasound-guided biopsy.

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And then the biopsy result was invasive

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ductal carcinoma, poorly differentiated.

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Faculty

Lisa Ann Mullen, MD

Assistant Professor; Breast Imaging Fellowship Director

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Tags

Women's Health

Ultrasound

Tomosynthesis

Neoplastic

Mammography

Breast

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